KAMPALA - The Ugandan leading activist for gay rights was killed in Kampala. His name and his picture had appeared last October alongside those of 100 other homosexuals on a sort of black list developed by a homophobic newspaper, the Rolling Stone. David Kato, 43, was killed "around 13", said his lawyer, John Francis Onyango.
A man would enter her home and was shot in the head. Kato, told Human Rights Watch, died while being taken to hospital. The organization for the respect of Human Rights has asked the Ugandan government to undertake "an urgent and impartial investigation into the murder" of one who gained the homophobic hatred for opposing the bill providing for the death penalty for the crime of "aggravated homosexuality", a text called "hateful" by Barack Obama.
Even today, homosexuality is punishable by seven years in prison, and the Ugandan prisons do not seem to reassure the fundamental rights of the prisoner. David Kato had been hosted in Rome last November in the work of the Fourth Congress of the radical Certain Rights, where he told of the persecution and of real lynchings suffered by lesbian and gay people in Uganda.
Many international NGOs were mobilized in different countries of the world against this barbarism. During the court hearing was protected by international NGO volunteers who followed the trial and defended by diplomats from Western embassies, which had saved several attempts at lynching by an angry mob because they recognized the European Parliament, thanks to the international campaign of No Peace Without Justice, had passed a resolution condemning the Kato and Uganda had also been audited by the Subcommittee on Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The activist had initiated legal action against the magazine Rolling Stone and on 7 January, the Ugandan High Court had ordered the magazine for invasion of privacy law, defending gay people persecuted. The High Court had declared that none of the people whose photos had been published had committed crimes under the Penal Code of Uganda for gay people.
The United States has expressed "shock and horror" for the murder: "We are horrified and saddened," said Johnnie Carson, the Secretary of State for African Affairs. Also condemned by the European Parliament, and in Italy by gay rights groups. This evening the NGO No Peace Without Justice has convened a vigil in Brussels, tomorrow starts in Rome and Milan, with the torch at 17.30 from Piazza Duomo to the Ugandan consulate. 
A man would enter her home and was shot in the head. Kato, told Human Rights Watch, died while being taken to hospital. The organization for the respect of Human Rights has asked the Ugandan government to undertake "an urgent and impartial investigation into the murder" of one who gained the homophobic hatred for opposing the bill providing for the death penalty for the crime of "aggravated homosexuality", a text called "hateful" by Barack Obama.
Even today, homosexuality is punishable by seven years in prison, and the Ugandan prisons do not seem to reassure the fundamental rights of the prisoner. David Kato had been hosted in Rome last November in the work of the Fourth Congress of the radical Certain Rights, where he told of the persecution and of real lynchings suffered by lesbian and gay people in Uganda.
Many international NGOs were mobilized in different countries of the world against this barbarism. During the court hearing was protected by international NGO volunteers who followed the trial and defended by diplomats from Western embassies, which had saved several attempts at lynching by an angry mob because they recognized the European Parliament, thanks to the international campaign of No Peace Without Justice, had passed a resolution condemning the Kato and Uganda had also been audited by the Subcommittee on Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The activist had initiated legal action against the magazine Rolling Stone and on 7 January, the Ugandan High Court had ordered the magazine for invasion of privacy law, defending gay people persecuted. The High Court had declared that none of the people whose photos had been published had committed crimes under the Penal Code of Uganda for gay people.
The United States has expressed "shock and horror" for the murder: "We are horrified and saddened," said Johnnie Carson, the Secretary of State for African Affairs. Also condemned by the European Parliament, and in Italy by gay rights groups. This evening the NGO No Peace Without Justice has convened a vigil in Brussels, tomorrow starts in Rome and Milan, with the torch at 17.30 from Piazza Duomo to the Ugandan consulate.
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